Democratic People's Party (Germany)
The Democratic People's Party ( short name: DVP ) was a liberal party in southwest Germany whose tradition of Baden-Württemberg Association of FDP will continue.
Your original reference had the DVP in the Württemberg Democratic People's Party (abbreviated VP), in 1868 the People's Party ( DTVP ), 1910, the Progressive People's Party ( FVP ), and the end of 1918 the German Democratic Party (DDP) joined. On 6 January 1946, the DVP was re-established in Stuttgart in 1948 and participated in the founding of the FDP.
- 2.1 VP and since 1910 FVP in Württemberg
- 2.2 DDP in Württemberg
- 2.3 DVP in Wuerttemberg -Baden
- 2.4 DVP in Württemberg -Hohenzollern
History
German Empire
The Democratic People's Party or Württemberg People's Party was in the years 1863-1866 under the leadership of Karl Mayer, Julius Haussmann and Louis Peacock from the Progress Party in the Kingdom of Württemberg out and was the merger of many democratic revolutionaries of 1848. Many years she was the dominant political force in the "country ". On January 6, 1866, the delegates met in Stuttgart for their first "Three Kings Parade ", a kind of national representatives meeting. The German People's Party ( DTVP ) was constituted in 1868 in southern Germany as a national left-liberal party organization. The Württemberg People's Party was the strongest since the national association organized on imperial level German People's Party, which kept their focus in southern Germany. The DTVP went in 1910 in the Progressive People's Party ( FVP ) on. The in Württemberg mostly People's Party ( VP) was thus named party since 1910 the Württemberg party organization of the FVP. The People's Party comprised what was understood in the Kingdom of Württemberg under the Democrats. The supporters of the People's Party received the word democracy all claim for themselves, their leaders were in the language of their followers, the men of the people. Significant representatives of the People's Party in Württemberg until the end of the monarchy in 1918 Friedrich Payer and the brothers Conrad and Friedrich Haussmann. In the Württemberg state election in 1895 the People's Party won 31 of 70 seats. This could be the strongest faction of the parliament president, ask Friedrich von Payer.
At the founding of the German Democratic Party ( at the end of 1918 ), the Democrats of this new left-liberal party joined. In the free people's state Württemberg during the Weimar Republic acting party members of the DDP were for example Theodor Read Ching, John Hieber, Julius Baumann, William sound and Reinhold Maier. State chairman of the DDP in Württemberg was December 7, 1918 to January 6, 1921 Conrad Haussmann, then to 1933, Peter Bruckmann.
1933 dissolved the German State Party, which had formed in 1930 from the merger of the DDP with the Young German Order, under pressure from the National Socialists to forestall a ban.
Post-war Germany
On 6 January 1946, the Democratic People's Party, with the abbreviation DVP, founded by liberal figures such as Theodor Heuss and Reinhold Maier in Stuttgart new. The party tied explicitly to the tradition of DDP and VP before 1918 and not to the DVP of the Weimar Republic. 1946 Heuss Chairman of the DVP in the American zone of occupation. State chairman of the DVP in Wuerttemberg -Baden was 1946-1952 Wolfgang Haussmann. On August 17, 1946 was constituted in Württemberg- Hohenzollern DVP- state association, presided at the October 23, 1946 William Wirthle took over. Successor from 1951 to 1953 as state chairman in Württemberg -Hohenzollern was Eduard Leuze. 1947, the DVP co-founded the short-lived Democratic Party of Germany, whose co-chair Heuss was. After the failure of this all-German Liberal Party, she participated in 1948 in the founding of the FDP in Heppenheim and since then their national association, only in Württemberg -Baden and Württemberg -Hohenzollern, after the founding of the State of Baden -Württemberg under the name FDP / DVP in the entire Southwest State. Reinhold Maier ( in Württemberg -Baden and Baden- Württemberg ) presented the DVP is the only liberal Prime Minister in the Federal Republic of Germany.